EP1529366B1 - Procede et dispositif de creation d'un indicateur de qualite - Google Patents

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EP1529366B1
EP1529366B1 EP03788238A EP03788238A EP1529366B1 EP 1529366 B1 EP1529366 B1 EP 1529366B1 EP 03788238 A EP03788238 A EP 03788238A EP 03788238 A EP03788238 A EP 03788238A EP 1529366 B1 EP1529366 B1 EP 1529366B1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L1/00—Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received
    • H04L1/0001—Systems modifying transmission characteristics according to link quality, e.g. power backoff
    • H04L1/0014—Systems modifying transmission characteristics according to link quality, e.g. power backoff by adapting the source coding
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L1/00—Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received
    • H04L1/0001—Systems modifying transmission characteristics according to link quality, e.g. power backoff
    • H04L1/0023—Systems modifying transmission characteristics according to link quality, e.g. power backoff characterised by the signalling
    • H04L1/0025—Transmission of mode-switching indication
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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    • H04L1/00—Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received
    • H04L1/20—Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received using signal quality detector
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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    • H04L1/0001—Systems modifying transmission characteristics according to link quality, e.g. power backoff
    • H04L1/0015—Systems modifying transmission characteristics according to link quality, e.g. power backoff characterised by the adaptation strategy
    • H04L1/0016—Systems modifying transmission characteristics according to link quality, e.g. power backoff characterised by the adaptation strategy involving special memory structures, e.g. look-up tables

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  • Digital communication equipment may include receivers and transmitters to transmit and receive data packets.
  • the data packets may include frames of multimedia information.
  • the frames may include information of audio, video and the like.
  • Codecs for example, speech codecs and/or video codecs may receive frames that may include errors.
  • the codecs may code/decode the multimedia frames according to a quality of a transmit/receive channel, respectively.
  • a rate and/or a mode of coding/decoding may be adjusted according to the quality of the channel. The adjustment may be used to perform more accurate coding/decoding of the multimedia frames. Unfortunately, the adjustment of the rate and/or mode may not prevent the codecs from generating unreliable coded/decoded multimedia frames.
  • EP 1067730 A1 A method of determining the transmission quality of a radio channel is described in EP 1067730 A1. More specifically, this reference describes a method and apparatus of measuring errors in transmitted encoded bits and generating a transmission quality indicator of a radio channel by comparing the measured errors to reference data.
  • the invention provides a method of generating a quality indicator as set forth in claim 1 and a wireless communication device to provide a quality indicator as set forth in claim 4, respectively.
  • the invention provides an article including a storage medium as set forth in claim 15.
  • Codecs intended to be included within the scope of the present invention may include, by way of example only, an Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) voice codec as used in GSM and UMTS cellular standards, a multi mode video codec, and the like.
  • AMR Adaptive Multi Rate
  • mode throughout the specification may refer to the codecs mode of operation.
  • the codecs mode of operation may be a rate of coding/decoding, an algorithm of coding/decoding, a bit allocation of coding/decoding and the like.
  • the transceiver 100 may comprise a receiver 300, a transmitter 400, a mode selector 180, a media coder/decoder (i.e., codec) 190 and an antenna 101.
  • Receiver 300 may include a demodulator 110, a mode-decoder 120, a measuring unit 130, a memory 140 that may include a look up table (LUT) 145, a quality indicator generator (QIG) 150, a threshold generator 160 and a comparator 170.
  • Transmitter 400 may include a modulator 195 and power amplifier (PA) 197.
  • transceiver 100 may include a cell phone handset, a wireless handheld device, a wireless personal data assistance (PDA), a digital transceiver, and the like.
  • PDA wireless personal data assistance
  • the scope of the present invention is not limited in this respect, the description below will refer, by way of example only, to a transceiver of a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) that may operate in a global system for mobile (GSM) cellular communication network and/or in a wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) cellular network, and the like.
  • GSM global system for mobile
  • WCDMA wideband code division multiple access
  • antenna 101 may receive modulated radio frequency (RF) signals, which may include data frames.
  • RF radio frequency
  • a data frame of GSM may include 448 coded bits of voice and 8 coded bits of mode bits.
  • Receiver 300 may receive the RF signal and demodulator 110 may demodulate the RF signal and may provide, for example, coded media bits such as, for example, voice, speech, audio and video to media codec 190, if desired.
  • the mode bits may be used to vary the decoding/coding mode of media codec 190 in accordance with the transmit/receive channel quality.
  • a portion of a standard "3GPP TS 05.09 V8.5.0 (2001-11); Technical Specification; 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group GSM/EDGE; Radio Access Network; Link Adaptation; (Release 1999)” signal may define four "legal” combinations of the coded mode bits: "00000000”; "10111010", “01011101” and "11100111", wherein the first combination may be used to set media codec 190 to its lowest rate and the last combination may be used to set media codec 190 to its highest rate.
  • media codec 190 may be an audio codec, such as, for example, an AMR codec, and the like.
  • mode-decoder 120 may receive the data frame and decode the coded mode bits.
  • mode decoder 120 may provide mode bits to mode selector 180 and coded mode bits to measuring unit 130.
  • mode selector 180 may vary the mode of media codec 190 according to the mode bits.
  • media codec 190 may receive the mode bits from mode decoder 120.
  • media codec 190 may vary the decoding/coding mode according to the mode bits.
  • measuring unit 130 may receive, for example, four valid combinations of coded mode bits from LUT 145 and a combination of coded mode bits from mode decoder 120. Measuring unit 130 may measure an error between the valid combinations to the received combination of coded mode bits, and may store the measurement in memory 140, if desired.
  • memory 140 may be a Flash memory, a read access memory (RAM), a dynamic RAM (DRAM), an erasable/programmable read only memory (ROM) and the like.
  • RAM read access memory
  • DRAM dynamic RAM
  • ROM erasable/programmable read only memory
  • LUT 145 may be included in memory 140 and, in other embodiments of the present invention, LUT 145 may be a stand-alone unit, if desired.
  • QIG 150 may receive the error measurements from measuring unit 130 and may generate a quality indicator 155.
  • the error measurement that may be used by QIG 150 to generate quality indictor 155 may be an error measurement having a reduced error compared to the error measurements.
  • the reduced error may be a minimal error, if desired.
  • QIG 150 may manipulate the selected error measurement with a quality parameter to generate quality indicator 155.
  • quality indicator 155 may be used to select the mode of codec 190.
  • comparator 170 may compare quality indicator 155 to a threshold that may be generated by threshold generator 160 and provide a signal to mode selector 180.
  • the signal to mode selector 180 may be at one of two levels, namely, a high level ("1") or low level ("0").
  • mode selector 180 may refer to the mode bits as reliable mode bits and may vary the mode of codec 190 accordingly.
  • mode selector 180 may refer to the mode bits as unreliable and set the mode to a predetermined (e.g., default) mode, if desired.
  • quality indicator 155 may be used in the decoding operation of media codec 190, for example, to conceal errors in voice information of the received data frame, if desired.
  • codec 190 in some embodiments of the present invention may be a voice decoder.
  • the voice decoder may receive a label from demodulator 110.
  • the label may indicate whether the received data frame is reliable. If the received data frame is not reliable, an error concealment process may be executed. The error concealment process may extrapolate and gradually mute the voice of the decoded data frame. However, at least some unreliable data frames may be labeled as reliable frames by demodulator 110, thus causing significant artifacts in the decoded voice signal.
  • quality indicator 155 may be used to filter out mislead labels by accepting a label indicating a reliable frame only if quality indicator 155 is at a high level.
  • media codec 190 may encode media information.
  • media codec 190 may encode speech bits of a UMTS cell phone device at a predetermined mode and may provide a data frame that may include coded speech bits and coded mode bits.
  • the mode bits may be set with the quality indicator.
  • modulator 195 may modulate the frame and provide a modulated RF signal to PA 197, which may transmit the modulated RF signal using antenna 101.
  • the method may start with receiving a data frame that may include media bits and coded mode bits that may indicate the modes of media codec 190 (block 200).
  • the received coded mode bits may be compared to a plurality of different valid combinations of coded mode bits, to provide an error measurement (block 210), if desired.
  • error measurement block 210
  • the number of possible combinations of the coded mode bits may depend on the codec type and the communication network standard.
  • the standard requirements include using an AMR codec that may include four modes, which may be encoded into eight bits, if desired.
  • the number of combinations in this example is 256, while only four of them may be valid combinations.
  • the operation of block 210 may be provided to all of the combinations. More particularly, the comparison may be performed using a bit-wise XOR operation, and the result of the XOR operation may be inputted to a counter. The counter may count the "1's" output from the XOR operation. Thus, the output of the counter may indicate an error value. Furthermore, the error value may be stored in memory 140 (block 220).
  • the counter output may be defined in terms of Hamming distance and, accordingly, the operation described with reference to block 210 may include measurements of the Hamming distance between the received coded mode bits and a valid combination of coded mode bits.
  • an error measurement with a minimal Hamming distance of the stored error measurements may be selected (block 230).
  • the selection may be performed by sequentially comparing the received coded mode bits with the stored valid combinations of coded mode bits, and receiving one error measurement at a time, if desired.
  • the error measurement may be compared with a previously stored error measurement. If, for example, a current error measurement is smaller than a previously stored error measurement, then the current error measurement may be stored instead of the previously stored error measurement.
  • the stored error measurement may be manipulated with at least one quality parameter, and may be set as an error value (block 240).
  • the error value may be set as a quality indicator (block 250). However, in other embodiments of the present invention, the error value may be set as the quality indicator 155.

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  1. Procédé de génération d'un indicateur de qualité, comprenant les étapes consistant à :
    recevoir une trame reçue, qui comprend des bits de mode codés qui sont indicatifs de modes d'un codec (190) ;
    prévoir une pluralité de mesures d'erreur par comparaisons entre les bits de mode codés de la trame reçue et une pluralité de combinaisons valides de bits de mode codés afin de produire la pluralité de mesures d'erreur ;
    sélectionner une mesure d'erreur parmi la pluralité de mesures d'erreur ; et
    générer ledit indicateur de qualité (155) par manipulation de la mesure d'erreur sélectionnée avec un paramètre de qualité, le procédé étant caractérisé par les étapes consistant à :
    décoder une voix à partir d'une information vocale de la trame reçue ; et
    masquer des erreurs dans l'information vocale de la trame reçue sur la base de l'indicateur de qualité (155) par extrapolation et extinction graduelle de la voix.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel la détermination de la pluralité de mesures d'erreur comprend la mesure d'une distance de Hamming entre les bits de mode codés de la trame reçue et la pluralité de combinaisons valides des bits de mode codés, et le réglage de la distance de Hamming en tant que valeur d'erreur.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1, comprenant en outre la sélection d'un mode du codec (190) en fonction de l'indicateur de qualité (155).
  4. Dispositif de communication sans fil (100) destiné à produire un indicateur de qualité (155), le dispositif comprenant :
    une unité de mesure (130) destinée à produire une mesure d'une erreur dans des bits de mode codés d'une trame reçue ;
    une table de conversion (145) destinée à fournir une pluralité de combinaisons valides de bits de mode codés à l'unité de mesure (130),
    dans lequel l'unité de mesure (130) produit une pluralité de mesures d'erreur par comparaison entre les bits de mode codés reçus et les combinaisons valides de bits de mode codés et sélectionne une mesure d'erreur parmi la pluralité de mesures d'erreur ; et un générateur d'indicateur de qualité (150) génère ledit indicateur de qualité (155) par manipulation de la mesure d'erreur sélectionnée avec un paramètre de qualité, le dispositif de communication sans fil (100) étant caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend :
    un codec (190) destiné à décoder une voix à partir d'une information vocale de la trame de données reçue et à masquer les erreurs dans l'information vocale de la trame reçue sur la base de l'indicateur de qualité (155) par extrapolation et extinction graduelle de la voix.
  5. Dispositif de communication sans fil (100) selon la revendication 4, comprenant en outre :
    un démodulateur (110) pour démoduler ledit signal reçu pour produire la trame reçue, dans lequel la trame reçue comprend les bits de mode codés et des bits de support codés ; et
    un décodeur de mode (120) destiné à décoder les bits de mode codés pour produire des bits de mode décodés.
  6. Dispositif de communication sans fil (100) selon la revendication 4, dans lequel le générateur d'indicateur de qualité (150) est capable de générer l'indicateur de qualité (155) en sélectionnant une mesure ayant une erreur réduite parmi une pluralité de mesures fournies par l'unité de mesure (130).
  7. Dispositif de communication sans fil (100) selon la revendication 4, dans lequel la table de conversion (145) est capable de fournir une pluralité de combinaisons valides de bits de mode codés à l'unité de mesure (130) et dans lequel l'unité de mesure (130) est capable de mesurer une distance de Hamming entre les bits de mode reçus et au moins l'une de la pluralité de combinaisons valides de bits de mode codés.
  8. Dispositif de communication sans fil (100) selon la revendication 7, dans lequel le générateur d'indicateur de qualité (150) est capable de générer l'indicateur de qualité (155) en sélectionnant une distance de Hamming réduite parmi les distances de Hamming mesurées par l'unité de mesure (130).
  9. Dispositif de communication sans fil (100) selon la revendication 4, dans lequel le codec (190) est capable de décoder les bits de support codés de la trame reçue et comprenant en outre une unité de sélection de mode (180) qui est capable de sélectionner un mode du codec (190) en fonction des bits de mode.
  10. Dispositif de communication sans fil (100) selon la revendication 9, dans lequel l'unité de sélection de mode (180) est capable de faire varier un mode de codage/décodage du codec (190) si l'indicateur de qualité est inférieur à un seuil.
  11. Dispositif de communication sans fil (100) selon la revendication 4, dans lequel le codec (190) est capable de décoder des bits de voix codés en fonction de l'indicateur de qualité (155).
  12. Dispositif de communication sans fil (100) selon la revendication 4, dans lequel le codec (190) comprend un codec de voix à débits multiples adaptatif.
  13. Dispositif de communication sans fil (100) selon la revendication 5, dans lequel le démodulateur (110) comprend un décodeur GSM (Groupe Spécial Mobile).
  14. Dispositif de communication sans fil (100) selon la revendication 5, dans lequel le démodulateur (110) comprend un décodeur UMTS (système universel de télécommunication avec les mobiles).
  15. Article comprenant un support de stockage ayant stockées dedans des instructions qui, lorsqu'elles sont exécutées par une plateforme informatique, ont pour résultat l'exécution du procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3.
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